Chapter 453: Den of Demons (6)
Jeong Yeon-shin blankly stared at the empty space.
'When will he come?'
He did nothing. Something that didn't even deserve to be called a corpse had been chattering for quite some time, but in the first place, that body had merely been a signal flare meant to summon the Lord of Taemosan Fortress.
It was no different from the Boreum Jade that Ma Gwang-ik used.
The Dark Heaven Emperor, Cho Ryeol.
He was said to be a tyrant, the Ming family's Jade Emperor.
A transcendent being for whom nothing was impossible in the world, a supreme master whose martial arts and sorcery had reached the heavens.
He was an old monster who had spent his youth in the era when "Sambong Zhenren" was the name that represented the martial world—a being who had lived even before the founding of Ming.
'Who did I hear it from?'
Jeong Yeon-shin stood ◈ Nоvеlіgһт ◈ (Continue reading) in a daze, blinking once. Then, he let out a short sigh. Ah, the Grand Elder.
—Take note. At the time, Cho Ryeol had no ties to the unorthodox path. He simply walked the path of righteousness and had ties with the founding patriarch of the Wudang Sect. He even conversed with Sambong Zhenren in person. Naturally, he is much older than the Lord of Taemosan Fortress. That is why, whenever scholars discuss the distribution of the martial world, they always treat him as an exception.
—Then, does that mean my grandfather and the Grand Elder were just hatchlings...